‘Lalbagh is not a pizza’: Bengaluru residents rally against 5% park land rule

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Tejasvi Surya, MP from South Bengaluru Constituency — Photo: Sanket Oswal / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

If saving Lalbagh and other parks is a crime, we will do this crime every day,” Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said while speaking to reporters. While the government has said the law applies only to public utility projects undertaken by government departments, statutory authorities, government companies or local authorities, critics fear it could pave the way for real estate development and infrastructure projects, including roads through parks.

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If saving Lalbagh and other parks is a crime, we will do this crime every day,” Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said while speaking to reporters.
While the government has said the law applies only to public utility projects undertaken by government departments, statutory authorities, government companies or local authorities, critics fear it could pave the way…

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